Steve Redgrave famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Remember these six minutes for the rest of your lives. Listen to the crowd and take it all in. This is the stuff of dreams.
-- Steve Redgrave

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The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct.
-- Steve Redgrave

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Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.
The environmentalist's dream is an egalitarian society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less, and sharing a much lower level of resources much more equally.
I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.
A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere.
Reality is painful -- it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard there's no point at which it's obvious you're failing -- but it's impossible to get better without confronting it.
Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.
Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.
I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.
Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.

Steve Redgrave famous quotes

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